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Getting files off serial drives?
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I've got a couple of old HD's that I'd like to get some jpgs. off....but all four of my current Mac's are serial lame. What would you suggest?
Are there any uses for these drives? I could donate..
Thanks.
Jim
Salisbury MD
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SATA<->PATA adapters are about $10.
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They're old drives... not gonna be SATA.
Hard drives on Macs used serial ports only before 1986. Perhaps you mean SCSI?
If so, you can get SCSI cards for a modern Power Mac, and there are some finicky FireWire-SCSI adapters, but I'd just pull an old Mac with SCSI out of the closet, dust it off and copy the stuff off via the network.
Another option is to get an old Mac with PCI, running Mac OS 9.1-9.2, and put a USB or FireWire card in it, to let you copy the files to a modern USB or FW disk.
tooki
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I think he means that the old drives are parallel but his new Macs are serial. He'll need a SATA to PATA adapter as suggested by mduell.
Chris
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If that's the case, yes, but the thread title does not in any way imply that the computer is SATA.
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Originally Posted by tooki
If that's the case, yes, but the thread title does not in any way imply that the computer is SATA.
"but all four of my current Mac's are serial"
I doubt all four of his Macs are from the early eighties. Probably a poor title.
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It could be "but all four of my current Mac's are serial lame", e.g. lame at serial.
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My apology for perhaps a misleading question. These drives use those bigass cables that terminate in plugs about 3" wide. I have kept a Mac Classic II (just to remind me what i once thought was extremely impressive..) but these drives don't connect to that - and I've nothing in between. I'll bet they're SCSI. I'll go look for an adaptor or an old Mac at the Salvation Army.
Thanks for the help.
Jim
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Are you talking internal or external drives, by the way?
When are they from? Most Macs up until 1996 used SCSI drives.
Internal SCSI uses a 50-pin header plug at the end of a wide ribbon cable. External SCSI drives typically used a huge 50-pin Centronics-style connector. The standard cable for those had the 50-pin plug on one end and a smaller 25-pin D-sub connector on the other, to go into the Mac.
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